Austin Drupal Users Group - Individual Introductions!
Hey Austin!
If you want to give a shout out as to what you do and how you're working with Drupal, that would be great!
During our meetups, we really don't have time for attendees to share detailed intros with the group. We tried intros at one of our meetups and, in the process, consumed over an hour when we could have been learning or teaching others about Drupal.
As a result, intros at future meetups will be great if they're no more than 10 seconds long each to provide basics such as your name, your organization, and what you're doing/hoping to do with Drupal, e.g. "Hi, I'm Walt Esquivel, I'm with Wellness Corps, and I'm using Drupal to help me establish a wellness presence primarily through Organic Groups." For everything else intro-related that you want to share with the Austin DUG, please do it online. This page is the place for you to do it! :)
So, feel free to provide whatever you'd like here on this Austin intro list. Here are some ideas:
- Name
- Organization (company, school, non-profit, government, etc.) you're with & what you do there for a living
- Link(s) to your Drupal website(s) (personal and/or organizational website(s))
- What you hope to accomplish with Drupal
- General background
- Education
- Hobbies
- Etc.
I'll take the lead by saying my name is Walt and I've started a company called Wellness Corps. I'm the founder and president of my one-man company so I do everything from installing Drupal modules to taking out the trash. :) With Drupal, my goal is to establish wellness-related groups all across our wonderful planet! :)
I like working with Drupal because it's easy to set up and provides so many contributed modules for customized functionality. My company's website is bare-bones at the moment as I just uploaded a few modules after trying them out on my test website. Come back in a week or two and it will be much more presentable.
My previous experience includes marketing, sales, consulting, and logistics, among others. I have an MBA in marketing/information mgt and an MA in human resources. I served in the Marine Corps as an officer for 8 years and there's more info about me than you ever want to know on my LinkedIn page. (Speaking of LinkedIn, please connect to me via LinkedIn so we can stay in touch.)
I see myself as helping others by setting up Drupal meetups to assist in the training and support of Drupal users/learners. How about you? How do you expect to give back to the Drupal community? Whatever it is, thanks in advance!
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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New to the Austin DUG
Hi, my name is Matt Genovese. I just started using Drupal 5.1 about 3 months ago, so I'm a relative newbie to the system, although frankly I think the administration is fairly intuitive (though I had heard otherwise). In the past I used e107 CMS, but decided to switch for a variety of reasons to which I won't elaborate here.
By day, I'm a design verification engineer for microprocessors and SoC's at a local semiconductor company here in Austin, and I also do software consultation on the side. My academic background is in Computer Engineering, so I am fluent in both software engineering and hardware / VLSI design. I have a BSCE from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MSEE from UT-Austin. You can also find out more than even I knew about myself on my LinkedIn page.
I'm looking forward to attending some DUG meetings and learning from the other more experienced Drupal users in the area - what pitfalls I can avoid, proper ways to implement certain features, and even to do some Drupal module development.
Cheers,
Matt
Howdy
Hi guys, My name is Aaron. I pay the bills with graphic design and web development (almost exclusively Drupal) I've put in hundreds of hours with this system, but I still have a whole lot more to learn. I plan to be at the meet-up Tuesday.
Howdy, Austin DUG!
I'm Ben Finklea.
I'm the CEO of SpryDev Search Engine Marketing.
We are primarily a Search Engine Optimization company but about 1/3 of our time is spent doing web design.
We use Drupal whenever and where ever possible.
I'm also the guy behind the Drupal SEO Podcast
I've been developing websites and starting companies since the mid-90s during my college days at Texas A&M.
When I'm not SEOing or Drupaling I'm helping my wife raise our 2 boys Andrew (3 years old) and John (3 weeks old).
I'm excited about making it to a future meetup! I've heard a lot about Four Kitchens so I want to meet you guys ASAP.
Regards,
Ben Finklea, CEO
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New to Austin DUG
Hello drupalers
My name is Joshua Mora.
I am new to drupal and I would like to receive advice about how to organize and share content (through a web interface) that I am currently storing in simple folders on my hard drive. I believe it should be easier than Zope but I still got alot of headaches trying to understand the mechanics/philosophy of drupal.
It is a shame I missed your meeting on September 4th. I hope to meet you on next meeting.
Joshua Mora,
joshua_mora@usa.net
Hi
I am very happy to find an Austin Drupal group. I am a poet and writer (with very limited web design experience) and an idea person. Recently, I have come up with a number of ideas for websites that I think have a lot of potential to make money and serve large niche communities. I have begun to try to figure out Drupal as the system to do all of them with. They are all social networks of one kind or another, but most have a specific focus or area of exchange that differentiates them from most social networks. I have 4-7 ideas I am planning to do at the moment--I think they are all very good ideas and a couple of them I think could really take off. I am reluctant to talk about them too much though until I actually get them goin. Nevertheless, I really look forward to meeting some other folks and getting their advice and guidance. I would also love to find the right partner for these projects, someone I resonate a lot with who is much more of a drupal expert than me. Ideally, I could focus mostly on the content and structure, while my partner focused on the advanced features and design. If there are any Drupal experts in Austin who would be interested in teaming up on something that could be a souce of longterm income, please get in contact me. In any case, I look forward to meeting everybody. Hopefully, at the next meetup.
Creatin & Managing Communities on Drupal
Welcome to the group! I'd like to introduce you to our company, www.generixmedia.com We do exactly what it sounds like you are looking for, the heavy lifting in building out your community(s) on Drupal. We partner with subject matter experts that have ideas and passion to develop their online community with Drupal. Our partner sites include wide ranging industries such as electronic payments with www.allpaynews.com to fashion and shoes with www.shuzsociety.com, we can do as much or as little technical support and design you need. This is especaially helpful as you ramp up and become more knoweldgeable on Drupal and take on more of it on your own.
Feel free to contact me to disccuss more. We're based in Round Rock / Austin and the Hill Country
Jeremy
Introduction
I am a financial adviser, and I work with a small financial advisory firm. Since we are a small firm, everyone does a variety of functions. However, I started by career as a EE. After getting a BSEE from U. of Illinois, I spent eleven years working in the semiconductor industry.
Most of my technical experience is hardware/firmware oriented, but I spent many years working with simple databases. Now I'm in the process of learning open source web languages. I started with HTML and CSS, and now I'm working on PHP and MySQL. I did some work with Mambo, but I have found Drupal a lot easier to work with.
Currently, I'm trying to set up an on-line data base. And I'd like to use Drupal as a front end.
I am very excited to find that there is a Drupal user's group in Austin, and look forward to meeting people on 10/2.
Tanya
Drupal Noob
I work for a local gaming company and have decided to start working on my own projects again (in my spare time.) A buddy and I are building a social networking site which will have a few unique tools. We found Drupal and have been impressed with it and plan to have a prototype up in 2-1/2 weeks (we'll see how that goes.)
We actually spent a lot of time comparing RoR vs. LAMP development and found that we could find more people capable of building PHP-based projects than RoR -- and thus more people that aren't as busy as Ruby devs. As such, we're hoping to interface with people to share ideas and support each others efforts.
We are literally, two-guys in a garage, building what "we" believe is a cool thing.
I hope to catch the next meet up for the group ;-)
Peace,
-Joey
New 2 Austin. New 2 Drupal.
New 2 Austin. New 2 Drupal.
Recently moved to Austin with my wife, Jennifer, and a big furry yellow cat (Harry). I work in software engineering with an international software company. In addition to being a software engineer (Physician Operating Systems), I am also an unpublished author of many long lost blogs in the blogosphere, am a political junkie, caffeine freak, psuedo-buddhist, and habitually late person. I'm also an Unlicensed Massage Therapist (UMT).....at least my wife thinks so ;)
I'm beginning to develop with Drupal just now. I don't have a lot of web development experience, so I'm probably that long haired hippie in the Barnes and Noble computer section drinking a Mocha and poking around in the Drupal/PHP/JQuery section.
My intention is to begin a website for political junkies like myself, but I've been known to start something and end up with something completely unexpected. Which, I might add, is a great way to live life too.
If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are ~ Zen Proverb
moving to austin, looking for a druple developer
Hi, my name is Jessica; I'm currently located in London, UK, but moving to Austin this coming autumn. I am developing a web concept now (from the business end - I am not a developer) which I think it pretty exciting, and since I am moving to Austin I figured it might be best to look for a developer in my future hometown. Would love to hear from anyone looking for freelance work - I will likely need a combination of off-the-shelf and "tweaked" elements so I'm looking for someone who is interested in the iterative process. Ideal person would also be excited about the concept - which is about supporting families as their loved ones go through the aging process.
You can get me at jessica (at) jessicashortall.com
Thanks!
New to Drupal
Hello,
I am interested in creating a community website using drupal and hope that I can learn from others in this group. In addition, I will probably be looking to hire a company/individual to help me get the site set up correctly in hopes of not having to make a lot of changes down the road.
Melissa